LEANN RIMES - NOTHIN' BETTER TO DO
Hung My Cotton Dress On Rusted Wire
Up There On Pilahatchee Bridge
Just A Crazy Roughneck's Daughter
Jumped Head First Into The Water
Baptized Away My Sins
Hitched To Town With Bobby Jo And Tommy
Couple Of Lookers New Best Friends
We Slipped In The Back Of Sunday Service
Know Them Church Ladies They Heard Us
Burn Smoke Money From The Offering
Mama Said: Idle Hands Are Devils Handywork
Oh, The Trouble You'll Get Into
You Got Nothin' Better To Do, Got Nothin' Better To Do
You Got Nothin' Better To Do, Got Nothin' Better To Do
Yeah!
Sign Read 'Bait, Chips, Beer And Ammunition'
That Slim Jim Bag Boy Hadn't A Prayer
Well, I Hiked My Skirt And Did The Talkin'
While Them Boys Were Busy Walkin'
Case Of .5 Out The Back Door
Hid Deep In The Mississippi Backwoods
We Danced And Played Around 'Til Dark
Well, I Had Them Wrestlin' For Ym First Kiss
Turned Into A Fight And They Missed
Me Speedin' Off In Tommy's Car
Mama Said: Idle Hands Are Devils Handywork
Oh, The Trouble You'll Get Into
You Got Nothin' Better To Do, Got Nothin' Better To Do
You Got Nothin' Better To Do, Got Nothin' Better To Do
Yeah!
Nobody Hurt, Nobody Harmed
Nobody's Business But My Own
Mama Said: Idle Hands Are Devils Handywork
Oh, The Trouble You'll Get Into
You Got Nothin' Better To Do, Got Nothin' Better To Do
You Got Nothin' Better To Do, Got Nothin' Better To Do
You Got Nothin' Better To Do, Got Nothin' Better To Do
You Got Nothin' Better To Do, Got Nothin' Better To Do
You Got Nothin' Better To Do Babe
Got Nothin' Better To Do
You Got Nothin' Better To Do Babe
You Got Nothin' Better To Do, No No
Got Nothin' Better To Do Babe
You Got Nothin' Better To Do, No No
Got Nothin' Better To Do Babe
Got Nothin' Better To Do, No No!
SONG FACTS
Writer(s): Darrell Brown, LeAnn Rimes, Dean Sheremet
Producer(s): Dann Huff
In The Lead Single From Her 12th Studio Album, Leann Rimes Takes On The Persona Of A Restless Girl Who Stirs Up Trouble In Her Little Hometown Because There's "Nothin' Better To Do." It Was Based On The Singer's Upbringing In Pelahatchie, A Small Town Outside Of Jackson, Mississippi (Before Her Family Relocated To Texas).
Rimes Wrote This Song With Her Then-Husband Dean Sheremet, And With Darrell Brown, Her "What I Cannot Change" Co-Writer.
"Nothin' Better To Do" Peaked At #14 Country, #8 Dance Club Songs, And #16 Adult Contemporary. It Was The First Time An Artist Simultaneously Charted With A Single On All Three Charts.
This Was Nominated For The Grammy Award For Best Female Country Vocal Performance In 2008 But Lost To Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats."
The Music Video, Directed By Rimes And David Mcclister, Stars Rimes As A '30s-Era Criminal Named Annie Jewel Who Is Finally Caught And Incarcerated At A Women's Correctional Facility. She Leads Her Fellow Inmates In Some Dance Choreography And Incites A Riot That Results In Her Temporary Escape. The Clip Was Shot At The Old Tennessee State Penitentiary, The Same Location Used In The Tom Hanks Movie The Green Mile.
Peaking At #4 In The Us, Family Was Rimes' Last Studio Album To Reach The Top 10.